Basmachi

The Basmachi movement was a conservative and anti-communist movement in the Emirate of Bukhara that existed from 1916 to 1934, fighting against the Soviet Union during the Basmachi Revolt. The movement's roots lay in the 1916 anti-draft protests against the Russian Empire, and it came to oppose the Bolshevik takeover of the emirate and the establishment of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic. The Basmachis seized large parts of the Ferghana Valley and much of Turkestan during their guerrilla war against the Soviet government, but the Red Army won several successful campaigns in 1923, and Red Army campaigns and concessions regarding economic and Islamic practices led to support for the Basmachis declining. The uprising had ended by 1934.